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New American Bomb (British official Wireless.) (Received May 28, 7.35 p.m.) RUGBY, May 2i. A new kind of bomb that explodes ninethousandths of a second flfter impact is being used with great success by American airmen, states, the ordnance section of the United States Air Service Command in Britain. American flyers can now control the explosion down to the ten-thousandth part of a second. A bomb intended to destroy machinery inside a factory can be timed to explode in the centre of the plant after it has penetrated the roof, but before it has passed through the building and buried itself in the ground. A mistake of a tenthousandth part of a second in the fuse's time could mean that difference between destruction of the factory and merely tearing up a few yards of its roof.

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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 206, 29 May 1944, Page 5

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SPLIT-SECOND TIMING Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 206, 29 May 1944, Page 5

SPLIT-SECOND TIMING Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 206, 29 May 1944, Page 5